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Saving Outcasts. When graft scandals broke in San Francisco in 1907, Rogers won national fame. He agreed to defend two top executives of a local streetcar company, accused of bribing city officials. Rogers' opponent in the case was the fiery Francis J. Heney, a friend of President Theodore Roosevelt. In the course of a tumultuous trial, someone shot at Rogers, barely missing. Someone else shot Heney in court and almost killed him. Weeks later, Heney reappeared with a hideous scar, only one eye, and plenty of public sympathy. But Rogers won his case by proving that some of Heney...
...green, white and coral design selected by Wife Claire Chalk. The capital's first air-conditioned buses were welcomed with a traffic-tangling parade of bands, calypso dancers and pretty girls. But along with the showmanship went solid business sense. D.C. Transit eliminated most of its streetcar lines, improved services, added express buses. Net income has shot up 97% since Chalk took over-partly because of these improvements, partly because Chalk wheedled Congress into granting exemptions on fuel taxes and subsidies for carrying schoolchildren at reduced fares...
...Editorial in the Atlanta Journal, 1917 The late Georgia Politician Eugene Talmadge used to say that he didn't care if he never carried any county that was big enough to have a streetcar. And he had good reason to feel that way: by aiming his appeal at the back-country farms and hamlets, rough-cut "01' Gene" got himself elected Governor four times. So solid was his power that he was able to pass it down to his son Herman, who was twice Governor and is now a U.S. Senator...
...laude student at Williams who turned to interpreting another Williams on Broadway (Cat) and in Hollywood (Streetcar}, Method Director Elia Kazan, 52, finally won a scholastic laurel that eluded him when he graduated in 1930. For having brought "unfailingly high standards to all he has touched," "Gadge" Kazan was granted honorary membership in Phi Beta Kappa...
...Night of the Iguana, by Tennessee Williams. On a Mexican veranda, four desperate people break out of the cycle of self-concern to achieve self-transcendence. Williams' best play since A Streetcar Named Desire...